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I. G. TREAT.

ICE GREBPER.

'N01 286,240. Patented oct. 9, 188s.

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srnerrronrion forming part of Letters Application filed July Patent No. 286,240, dated October 9, 1883,

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To all whom, t may concern:

A Be it known that l', lsAAo G. TREAT, a citiren ofthe United States, a resident of the city of Beading, county of Berks, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useiful Improvement in Ice-Creepers, of which the following is a specification. j

This improvement relates more particularly to that class of ice-Creepers which are permanently attached to the boot or shoe.

The object of the improvement is to furnish an ice-Creeper free from the objections usua-lly made to the same of non-retention of place when used as a creeper, and of Wear ol' sole when not in use for that purpose. This I attain by the construction shown in the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, and in which like letters designate like parts. v f

Figure l. represents the improvement attached to the inner face of the heel, with `the spur-arm raised clear oi both heel and sole. Fig. 2 shows the spur-arm turned back upon the heel, with the spurs protruding from the same to catch upon the ice. Fig. 3 represents the arm. reversed upon the sole and supported upon the sole-plate guard. Fig. 4L is a l'ront and vertical plan of the creeper heelplate, and of the arm-spring. Fig. 5 is a plan, side, and end` elevation of the spur-arm, showing spurs, journals, and iinger-recess for same.

A represents the boot or shoe; A', the heel, B, the heel-plate; B', raised ends; B2, screw-holes; B3, journal-lugs; C, a flat steel spring; D, spur-arm; D', spur-head; D?, journal-head; D, journals; Dt, ice-spurs; D5, finger-recess5 E, sole-guard, E, guards, E2, screwholes.

The construction of the improvement is as follows: The heel-plate is so constructed that it is molded complete, requiring no machinework. The spring C is a plain flat piece of spring-steel cut to lie between the raised ends B, and is supported on a portion of the plate B, left standing at each end inside of the raised portion B', the plate being eut out sufiiciently longitudinally to permit the depression .ofthe spring C in vibrating thc arm D. The spur-arm D is east complete with its spurs and journals, of the forni shown, and the back of tlie journal-head has three teats formed upon it, which, in combination with the spring c, retain the arm D in the three positions shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3. The sole-guard E is also a single piece of casting, with the height of the guards E arranged to receive the spur-head and prevent the penetration ofthe sole by the spurs D".

It will be apparent from the above description that the improved ice-Creepers are inexpensive in construction in their several parts.

To assemble theplate B, spring C, and arm D, for application, the heel-plate B, which is of cast malleable iron, is slightly bent outward at the center, which opens a permits the insertion of the journal-head and journals oi' the spur-arm. rlhe spring C is first slipped through the journal -lugs B. The journal-head is then placed between the saine, and the plate B is st aightened, which, again closing the space between the eXtreme ends of the lugs B, locks the journals D:x within the same and retains the spur-arm in place. A linger-recess, D", is formed in the face of the spur-head, whereby the same may be raised from its working position upon the heel7 as in Fig. 2, and may be placed in a non- '.working position on the sole-guard, as shown in Fig. 3. The plate and guard are attached to the heel and sole, as shown, by ordinary gimlet-screws.

Having shown the construction and application of my improved ice-creeper, I desire to secure by Letters Patent the following claims thereon:

l. In an ice-creeper, the combination, with a skeleton plate adapted to be attached to the heel of a boot or shoe, of a spur-arm, D, having journals D, integral therewith, a fingerrecess, D", the usual ice-spurs, Di, a plain iiat spring, C, retained in place by lugs Bi and oil-'sets B', with a sole guard-plate, E, having guards E', secured to the sole of the boot or Shoe, substantially as shown, and for the purpose described.

wider space between the journal-lugs B3, and

2. In L11 ice-Creeper7 as described and in the instep, whereby the ice-spurs Dfare precombination therewith, L sole-guard plate, E, vented from puneturing the sole7 substantial] y provided With projected guards E', adapted as and for the purpose set fort to be secured vto the soie of the boot or shoe, ISAAC G. TREAT. 5 and to receive upon said guards the reversed Vitnesses:

spur-head of the spur-arm D When turned. THOMAS P. KINSEY,

from the heel to. a noiraeting position under F. PIERCE HUMMEL 

